Omaha daily bee., 1887-05-01

try as an example of pure government.
As first proposition IL is safer to trust a
republican than, democrat. The re.
publican is worthy of trust because he is
both true to his pIrty and also to public
trust. Grover Cleveland's admlnistra.
ton is one of hypocricy. 1t is one of do.
nothingdom. IL is an administration
that means the stoppage of all treaties
the opposite of the aggressive policy
of that noble leader, James g. Blaine.
1t means that the administration Is dong
nothing except -traiiicking IN Office to
keep Grover cleveland in or put Gov
ernor Hill or some other democrat in the
presidential chair. The great ship of
state is moving on, to be sure, but it is
simply the momentum which was given
1t by the republican administration be.
fore it. The democratic captain is simply
allowing the ship to drift. | only want
to say that every man on Your ticket
should be supported by every one here,
They are good men and good republic.
cans. They will make good officials ~
z. o. Hawes made the, the opening
speech OF the evening and devoted most
of his attention to the charges that Cap
tain Broatch was a prohibitionlst. He
authrized all republicans to call the man
who said so liar. He said: mir.
Broatch Is apace with the times. We
want no iowa prohibition. We want
nothing to impede the progress of this
thriving city and Captain Broatch knew
this and understood it thoroughly.
The speaker knew both !Broatch and
John Rush from many years association
with them. They are both liberal and
honest men. Beware of the temperance
crank" said Mr.. Hawes, "and beware of
the salOonist who Is n communist. The
liberal man is the only safe man to fol-
low"
David Mercer, chairman of the repub-
llCan central committee made brief but
pointed speech. He said that the repub.
licans were in solid phalanx and
marching on to victory. The speaker
was present at the time of the excite
ment on the floor of the house of repre-
sentatives in 1881 when the question of
submission of Il prohibitory amendment
so narrowly escaped beng carried. The
chief opponents to twere Messrs. Broatch
of Omaha, Wheedon of Lincoln and
Frank Ransom of Otoe. BY his written
protest against call of the house Mr..
Broatch prevented the resolution at one
time from passing. The coming election
was to be an honest one. Illegal regis
tration had been attempted. The
republican central committee had
engaged detective service for
the day of election and every
fraudulent voter would be spotted and
prosecuted to the extent of the law.
Hon j. l.. Webster made an eloquent
and stirring speech. His point was that
the growing mctropolitanism of Omaha
demanded officials to be elected who
were of known ability and integrity.
Such men were Broatch, who was ex-
perienced in public life, and as unswcrv-
ing in his integrity as he was exper-
fenced. The only thing Mr.. Garneau's
friends could say in his praise was
that nn hG Frdsv was ni,bt nice young man
had appeared.at meeting of colored cit-
zcns and had solited their votes. Yet not
a man believed that after election day
Mr.. Garneau would extend a courtesy to
a colOred man. He came here two years
ago and no one had seen him until he
appeared at horse race. He had been
fed from golden spoon all his life, In
st. Louis he was known as one of the
greatest sports. The speaker said of the
preached prohibition between campaigns
| and for free whisky on election day.
Captain Broath was introduced and
cheered. He promised that he would con
duct the affairs of,the city if he should be
honored by an election as mayor so that
no person would regret having supported
| him.
| given three cheers and three more were
| gwen for the whole ticket.
MIR. Louis Berka, candidate for police
| Judge; MIR. f. X. Long, the candidate for
| auditor, and Mike Lee, candidate for
| councilman at large, all made
addresses which were full of straigh.
| talk and occasioned great enthusiasm.
| Mr.. Long said he had been called Il
barnacle and a crank, and pleaded guilty
fn hn ho n1n
service on the school board without com
pensatiOn; and if to be a crank was to
refuse to pay unjust bills. MIR. Lee said
| that a democratic mayor, because
he, he could not @ accomplish ta;;co a, o;l the
had served notice on the republican city
council that they would have to assume
the responsibility OF the government of
the city. He added that the republicans
in that council took pride IN accepting
that responsibility.
| Leavitt Burnham and Isaac n. Hascall,
candidates for counclmen at large, fol
flowed with excellent speeches. Mr..
HaScall believed Omaha was only on the
starting point of its growth. Messrs.
Woodman, Counsman, Unit and Alex.
ander also spoke.
ing speech in which he al.
tirmed that the election of a demo.
cratic mayor would cause John A. Nc,
Shane's heart to flutter like the heart OF
the Young girl who listens to her first
proposal, as 1t would give hlm an oppor-
tunity to control the machinery of the
city government to the end that he
might be Senator Manderson's successor.
If Mr.. AleXander's speech last evening
was criterion of his capabilities he will
if elected as ward councilman, take high
| rank rs Il talker.
The Union Pacific band furnished ex.
cellent music during the evening. Nearly
all of the 300 or more who were present
remained during the long proceedings
and kept the ball rolling to the end by
frequent applause of every point made
Despite the uufavorable circumstances
connected with the meeting it was in
other respects a success.
A Political Conspiracy.
| 1t is pretty certain from facts now al
hand that there is deliberate scheme-or
more properly, Il conspiracy-among the
democratic registrars of this city to shut
out republican voters. 1t is to put re-